Hamlet is a study of what happens to a world when it is completely dominated by men, and it is essentially a cautionary, feminist examination of a world that is incapable of understanding women and denies them any kind of power.

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Hamlet could be interpreted  of what happens to a world when it is completely dominated by men.   While the women weren’t “completely” dominated by men, in my opinion, they certainly had challenging relationships with Hamlet, Claudius, Laertes and Polonius.  

Hamlet was written by William Shakespeare in approximately 1601, during the Renaissance period.   During that time young men attended school and learned about math and philosophy. Young women went to school to learn needlework and dancing.   Although dancing was a very important class, it is an example of how men viewed women during that time.  Generally a young girl had two options, to agree to an arranged marriage or join a convent to become a nun.  

There are two main female characters in Hamlet.   Gertrude is the Queen and Hamlet's mom.  Ophelia is a girl who has a crush on Hamlet.  

Both women were controlled by the men in the story, but Ophelia is definitely the weaker of the two.

Examples of male domination, or control is that Queen Gertrude accepted the fact that her husband,  King Hamlet was murdered by her own brother-in-law, Claudius.  Then she even gave in and married him.    Hamlet, the son , ends up with a severe dislike of his mother , after she marries Claudius.   Even though Hamlet’s feelings may be justified,  generally sons don’t have repulsions or sharp criticisms for their mothers.  Hamlet confronts Gertrude "As kill a king, and marry his brother?" (Shakespeare  Act 3 scene 4).  

Ophelia was controlled by Laertes, her brother concerning her relationship with Hamlet.   He told her  to not even expect to marry Hamlet because a prince can never marry for love.  Princes of the day  (even  to some extent now) were expected to marry other nobility to carry on the family line.   Even Ophelia’s father, Polonius was against Ophelia and Hamlet’s relationship because poor Hamlet was going mad, possibly over Ophelia’s flirtations.   However, a counter argument to that is perhaps Hamlet was actually interested in Ophelia but had the inner conflict of knowing that he could not marry outside the nobility.  

Some would argue that Gertrude possibly had more control over the situation than the men had over her.     It’s possible that she ended up controlling Claudious.  After her husband’s death, she may have been forced out of the castle and the life that she was accustomed to.  But instead, she made sure that she kept the title of Queen by marrying her own brother –in-law.  So she took control of her destiny by staying with her husband’s killer.   Her son Hamlet didn’t like it, but by doing so, that’s even more proof that she wasn’t completely controlled by men.  Hamlet was mean to Ophelia.   He had given her some gifts and when she tried to return them, he denied even giving them to her.     And then a famous line from the play, sums up easily how men felt about women’s choices of the day. Hamlet said to Ophelia "Get thee to a nunnery: Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?" (Shakespeare Act 3 scene 1).

Following the form of a traditional tragedy, it ends in Tragedy. Both women die, and both because they were in some way dominated over men.     Ophelia felt there was no other way to be happy, so she chose death and drowned herself.  Gertrude was caught up in the violent last act and between poisoning and stabbing,  even though she was not the intended target, she also tragically died.  

although the crusades failed to capture jerusalem, they had several major impacts on western europe. they increased the authority of the king: sometimes nobles died in battle without leaving an heir in which case the king got their land. kings passed taxes to pay for the crusades.

african american women made meaningful gains in the labor force and us armed forces as a result of the wartime labor shortage during the second world war, but these advances were sharply circumscribed by racial segregation, which was legal in all parts of the country, and virulent racism in the dominant culture. president franklin roosevelt’s signing of executive order 8802 in 1941 banned race discrimination in defense industries and civil service jobs. it was rarely enforced, however, and mostly ignored by employers until they were forced to hire nonwhites by exhaustion of the white labor supply. even then, war industries often filled their most menial and dangerous positions with black employees, frequently on night shifts and in janitorial slots. african american women suffered both racial and gender discrimination, so they had to fight very hard even to enter skilled spots on the production line in aircraft, shipyard work, and other well-paying war industries.

entrenched racist attitudes on the part of white employers and coworkers in the nation’s war-production centers hindered black women’s ability to gain employment in these unionized blue-collar jobs. when black people did get hired, they often were forced to use separate restrooms and to perform the lowest paid, most difficult work. sometimes their employment triggered hate strikes, which erupted periodically over the war, when white workers walked off the job over promotion or hiring of african americans into previously restricted departments and occupation categories. in 1943, for example, a baltimore western electric plant was forced to build separate toilet facilities for white and black workers when white women demanded them. barred from most service occupations like telephone operator, clerical worker (other than federal offices in washington, dc), or waitress at white restaurants, black women mainly found war jobs in dangerous industries such as munitions plants.

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the difficulty for black women entering skilled production areas, retail and other service work, or transportation jobs during the 1940s is mirrored in their continuing dominance of the private market for maids. although during the war, the proportion of african american women who were working in domestic service fell dramatically, from 60 to 44 percent, domestic employment remained their primary occupation category throughout the war. even in the military, which they did enter as a support for black male soldiers in the segregated armed forces, black women had trouble escaping low-skilled assignments, and they were not allowed to take combat roles. six african american wacs, for example, were court-martialed at fort devens, massachusetts, when they refused to take custodial assignments. in her memoir of being the first african american to join the women’s army corps, charity adams earley mentions the common army practice of dividing into "white" and "colored" the jobs wacs were given, with the latter being menial and

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japanese americans in military during world war ii in world war ii for its size and length of service, japanese americans served in the u.s. armed to nisei veterans in general—"most of the others did extremely well in their work and lives.

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